Garment-hanger.



- No, 877,598. PATENTE-D JAN. 28, 1908.

H. W. ROUNTREE.

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 19,1906.

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HENRY W. ROUNTREE, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Jan. 28, 1908 Application filed July 19 1906- Serial No. 326,951.

T 0 a?! whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY W. ROUNTREE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Richmond, county of Henrico, and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to garment hangers and more particularly to that class of hangers designed to carry a number of garments and has for its object the construction of a fiat hanger of but small thickness in order to enable the hanger with the garment hung thereon to be packed in the trunk, said hanger being designed especially for use in wardrobe trunks.

Referring to the drawings in which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1, is an elevation of the hanger, Fig. 2, is an end view, and Fig. 3, shows the hanger formed. of a single piece of wire.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 1., and 2, 4 is a coat form over which a coat and vest are to be hung, and is provided near its ends with shoulders 5. Its form is generally of a bow shape and has secured below it a wire frame bent to I-form, the upper bar 6, of which is secured to the wooden shoulder form in any suitable manner, but I have shown it as secured by means of metal clips 7 riveted to the wooden coat form 4, by means of rivets 8. The wire I-frame is a single wire one end of the top bar 6 being bent up as shown at 9, continues across the coat form and extends downward usually with a short turn at 10, then inward as shown at 1.1, then downward as shown at 12, outward as shown at 13 then downward, preferably but not necessarily on an incline, at 14, and across, to form the bottom bar 15, and then upward. at 14*, inward at 13 upward at 12, outward at 11 upward at 10 and then slightly inward with an upturned end 16 adjacent the upturned end 9. These two upturned ends 9 and 16 preferably enter a recess cut into the wooden coat form 4 and covered by one of the metal clips 7. It will thus be seen that there is formed a recessed or rentrant portion 17 having a vertical portion 12, and

stantiallv the same form as that shown in Fig. 1. One end of the wire is formed into a hook 20 and extends to the right to form a part 21 of the coat form which is bent into the shoulder 5, and then extends to the left to form a portion of the top bar 6, then extends outward at 10 on the left forming the same shape as shown in Fig. '1, having reentrant portions 17, and the bottom bar 15 and the portion 10 when it is twisted about the top bar, so that said top bar is composed of two twisted wires, as shown, then forms the left shoulder 5 and the left portion 22 of the coat-form and finally its end is twisted about the shank of the hook. The webbing is then secured in the rentrant portions 17, as previously described with reference to Fig. 1.

In operation a coat and vest can be hung on a coat form and skirt bands can be fastened together and around the shoulders 5, which shoulders will prevent the skirts from sliding up on the coat form. Trousers are held together at the ends of the legs and passed between 18 and 6, and over the top of 6, or they may be passed between 15 and 18, and then between 18 and 6, and over the top of 6, so that the weight of material hung over 6 will tend to deflect 18 from its normal straight line position and hold Whatever is.

hung over 6 by friction against 18. The distance between 12 and 12 at the reentrant portions 17 is substantially one-half the smallest waist measure or about 9 inches, so that any skirt may be fastened together around 12 and 12 the bands lying within the portions 17. If the skirts are heavy and the users desire it, they may be pinned at the middle to 18 or may be hung over the lower bar 15. It will thus be seen that a number of skirts one on top of the other may be hung by their bands secured around 12 and 12*. Trousers may be hung over 6 and 15 or both coats and vests as well as skirts may be hung on the coat form 4 and the whole be hung into a wardrobe trunk without further packing. The hangers are made thin and flat as shown in Fig. 2, so

that they may be hung in front of each other and the clothes be well packed in the trunk with the hangers, without injury to them from any lateral projections, that are usually present in coat hangers that widen across the shoulders or widen between the skirt bands.

I claim,

1. In a garment with a coat form of a supporting frame all of the parts of which are restrained from relative movement, said frame secured to and below the coat form and having a straight top bar, a straight bottom bar and short connected substantially parallel bars between them forming reentrant portions extending toward each other between the top and bottom bars.

2. In a garment hanger the combination with a coat form of an I-shaped supporting frame secured to and below said form and a yielding fabric extending across said frame, substantially as described.

3. In a garment hanger the combination with a coat form of an I-shaped wire supporting frame below said form, comprising a top and a bottom bar, reentrant side portions between the bars, and a fabric secured around and between the rentrant portions, substantially as described.

4- In a garment hanger the combination with a coat form having shoulders thereon to maintain a skirt band and an I-sloaped wire frame secured thereto comprising a top and a bottom bar and reentrant portions between them and a webbing secured around and between the rentrant portions allas' sembled to form a thin flat garment hanger, substantially as described.

5. In a garment hanger, a skirt supporting member comprising an I-frame having a top bar, a bottom bar and reentrant por tions, extending toward each other with a space between them and between the top and bottom bars, the distance between the hanger, the combination reentrant portions being substantially onehalf the smallest waist measure, and the distance between the top and bottom bars being less than their length.

I 6. In a garment hanger, a skirt supporting member comprising an I-shaped frame having a straight top bar, a straight bottom bar, a pair of substantially parallel connected intermediate bars forming a rentrantl' ortion at each side of the frame exten ing toward each other to leave a space between them and connecting the top and bottom bars, the distance between the top and bottom bars being less than the length of either of them.

7. In a garment hanger, the combination with a flat coat form having a shoulder on each side on its top edge; of a non-yielding I-frame rigidly secured to and below the coat form and having a straight top and a straight bottom horizontal bar, a pair of substantially parallel, short bars at each side of the frame and connected at one of their ends to each other and. at their other ends to the ends of the top and bottom bars respectively by short connecting portions.

8. In a garment hanger, a coat form having its ends dropped to form shoulders and an I-shaped frame rigidly connected to the bottom of said form and comprising a top and a bottom bar and reentrant portions, the distance between the inner ends of the rentrant portions being substantially onehalf the smallest waist measure, and the reentrant portions occupying substantially one third the distance between the top and bottom bars, and all of the above recited ele ments rigidly connected.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY W. ROUNTREE.

Witnesses:

H. S. YARRINGTON, G. A. HANSON. 

